DER US-AMERIKANISCHE GITARRIST DICK DALE IST GESTORBEN

Dick Dale (Bild), der am 4. Mai 1937 in Boston (Massachusetts) geborene US-amerikanische Gitarrist und Pionier der sogenannten Surfmusik, ist am 16. März 2019 gestorben. Dale war einer der einflussreichsten Gitarristen der frühen 1960er-Jahre. Zusammen mit Link Wray gilt er als stilbildend für Gitarristen wie Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend und Eddie Van Halen.* Das Musik-Magazin «Rolling Stone» zählt Dale zu den «100 grössten Gitarristen».

Foto: Mike Burns, 2005 – Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dick_Dale_Middle_East_May_2005.jpg

Pioneering guitarist and progenitor of surf rock with «Let’s Go Trippin’» and «Miserlou» inspired generation of musicians

Dale defined surf music as «that rumbling and all that stuff like that they associated the heavy Dick Dale staccato… it sounded like the barrel of a goddamn wave» in an interview with Surfer.

Daniel Kreps

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dick-dale-surf-guitar-king-dead-obituary-809294/

Dick Dale, Surf Rock Icon, Dead at 81

The guitar legend behind «Misirlou» toured late into life despite a series of health issues

Evan Minsker and Noah Yoo

https://pitchfork.com/news/dick-dale-surf-rock-icon-dead-at-81/

Dale’s self-released records with his band the Deltones led the way for countless other acts – the Chantays, the Surfaris, Eddie and the Showmen and the Pyramids among them – who emulated his reverb-soaked, «wet» sound and aggressive attack in their own hits.

Chris Morris

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/dick-dale-dead-dies-surf-guitar-king-1203165282/

RIP Dick Dale, ‹King of the Surf Guitar› Passes Away at 81

Born Richard Anthony Monsour, his famous songs, like «Miserlou,» and many others have become part of the American music fabric. Dale created the sound of the surf guitar by working with Middle Eastern music scales applied to a driving beat.

Donna Balancia

http://californiarocker.com/2019/03/17/rip-dick-dale-king-of-the-surf-guitar-passes-away-at-82/

Godfather of surf guitar

On the track Misirlou, Dale transformed the traditional Greek folk song into a sped-up, one-string performance, which became a national sensation after Dale performed it on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1962. In 1994, Quentin Tarantino used it as the opening music for Pulp Fiction.

Laura Snapes

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/17/dick-dale-dies-aged-81-misirlou-pulp-fiction

Surf-Musik-Legende

Dale arbeitete eng mit dem legendären Musikinstrumentenbauer Leo Fender zusammen und experimentierte mit speziellen Fender-E-Gitarren und Verstärkern, die seine laute, schnelle Spieltechnik prägten.

sda-ats

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/surf-musik-legende-dick-dale-mit-81-jahren-gestorben/44830778

Videos:

DICK DALE and the DEL TONES ~ Let’s Go Trippin! ~1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py9tKC5hmFM

Dick Dale & The Del Tones «Misirlou» 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8

Dick Dale – Surfin the Wedge – Live on TV 1963 Ed Sullivan Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwx2pephwKU

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Dick Dale – Pipeline (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56SAxtf-RTg

Guitar Center Sessions: Dick Dale – Misirlou